I do this because what happens in the Arctic matters to all of us. It’s not a question of whether it will happen – it’s a question of when the Arctic Ocean will be ice free in the summer.

Crucially, the ice at the top of the world acts as the planet’s air conditioner, regulating temperatures everywhere. This means that ice-free Arctic summers will have consequences for millions of people around the world, as global weather changes will impact people in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia as well as those in Europe and North America.

The Arctic deserves my persistence and it calls for all of us to show some determination; after all it was only after a seven-year campaign that Greenpeace secured a world park on the other side of the planet to protect Antarctica.

Of course there is no one-size-fits-all solution for the protection of the world’s last wild places, but what the success of the Antarctica campaign tells us is that we can win, even when the odds are stacked against us.

On a personal level I want to come back here. I can’t get enough of this amazing landscape. It’s a world beyond imagination.

Another reason I keep coming back is the ship I’m on now. She’s the smallest one of the Greenpeace ships, but like the 1st Mate said when I asked him what his favourite ship was: “This one,” he said. “This one can go more places.”

It’s true. The beautiful Arctic Sunrise is the only one of Greenpeace’s ships that can take us into the ice. And she has a certain charm, there’s no denying that.

But since the Arctic Sunrise was built, 75% of the Arctic Sea Ice has disappeared. This ship was designed to go into the ice – but climate change means that, for every year, there are fewer places for her to show her skills.

And yet, there’s still so much we don’t know about these places.

That’s why the Arctic Sunrise will be host in the coming weeks to 10 world-class independent sea ice scientists who will conduct groundbreaking scientific research in the Arctic.

Or maybe we should call it ‘icebreaking science’, as a nod to the Arctic Sunrise. After all, it’s her skills that make this journey possible.

This is eating up all the credibility, and, worse, AUTHORITY Greenpeace-ac...

Greenpeace is NOT a stage for international career-building!!!

This is eating up all the credibility, and, worse, AUTHORITY Greenpeace-acitists managed to earn in 40 years of war.

THE ONLY SUBSTANTIAL GREENPEACE ACHIEVED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS IS THAT DR. KUMI IS KNOWN WORLD WIDE.

Two years ago nobody had any idea who Dr. Naidoo, the only South African claiming to be AFRICAN, the perfect VICITM of the western world, is....

There is so many identical developments between my friend Niels Stolberg and the African Greenpeace-leader...I am astonished noone else gets suspicious!

To me all this feels like a bad joke...and it is the reason why we loose the war.

How bad is it to misuse the voice of our fragile earth for personal interests in 2012...in times of golbal wariming and all sorts of environmental fuck-ups...yes, Dr. Kumi is working on his career and as a result of this we might loose the war he claims to be willing to die for...

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(Unregistered) Abigor
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GREEN Saviour: The war is already over! It ended before it had even begun, as a direct result of the disparity in forces. On the one side, big busines...

GREEN Saviour: The war is already over! It ended before it had even begun, as a direct result of the disparity in forces. On the one side, big businesses led by multi-billionaires, governments with the USA at their head - the USA that is willing to frak the Earth's surface into becoming Mordor just to get oil from it's shale oil deposits in North Dakota, the USA that invaded Iraq to get it's oil, the USA that is looking to tear down Iran next for the oil, the USA that has been involved in Afghanistan for so many years for the oil...
And on the other side: many (but so few) well-meaning activists, a few NGOs, Greenpeace - led by Dr Kumi Naidoo.
There is no hope. An icecube has more hope of surviving in hell than we have of winning this war.
But we can fight nonetheless.
May the God-Emperor watch over you all.

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(Unregistered) GREEN Savior
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If you believe the war to be over I suggest to shut down Greenpeace...to send home all the Greenpeace-employees and use the 250 millions a year Greenp...

If you believe the war to be over I suggest to shut down Greenpeace...to send home all the Greenpeace-employees and use the 250 millions a year Greenpeace is collecting for buying land in the Amazon or rights for fishing in the ocean and creating reserves including a system of Rangers to take care of the reserve.

But I do not agree...I do believe Greenpeace simply needs an acacemic warloard of strategic nature.

Take the best trained rebel you can find...he will never have left the university with a suma cum laude if he seriuosly fought the system...